Remember the good old days when it was only “geniuses” who could get the editor of a newspaper to print their garbage and enjoy some sort of mass circulation? It was either that, or their father knew a producer on a radio station or at a television network who was willing to air their “interesting” views, or we were spared their filth.
Not today.
Now all anyone needs is a computer, an account on Facebook or Twitter and the mind of 8-year-old and they can have a full go at whatever or whomever they like.
On Saturday morning the not-so-Reverend Kemo Immanuel Waters tweeted: “The only way to end racism is to kill a material number of whites. @helenzille your indifferent and patronizing stance is a double dare…”
On being confronted by other users of Twitter, Waters stated: “No I have not lost my mind. But it is sad that this is what it takes to give racism the attention it deserves?” and “You missed the gist of my msg… which is the only time a black man is afforded a dignified audience is when he pulls a gun.”
No doubt the not-so-Reverend is confusing self esteem and racism here. Not surprising as he is a steeming (sic) nitwit.
Of course the best way of getting rid of racism is by starting to lock up racists like his not-so-goodself.
The Oxford dictionary defines racism as “the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races”.
[Pursuant to such beliefs] that “prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior”.
Unfortunately the not-so-Reverend doesn’t understand that blacks and whites (and everyone else) can be racist and his ranting is clearly a classic example of race hatred. He thinks that if the whites somehow infuriate members of the black community – such as, in his opinion, not paying them proper attention – then this constitutes racism.
No, dear: that is a case of bad manners or ill breeding, racism is something else.
But wait, there’s more! If the not-so-Reverend Waters is classified as a racist this week (which he is) then we will throw in absolutely free a whole number of criminal charges which flow directly from his inflammatory outburst.
Get out your books on Criminal Law and tear out the chapter on “compounding”. Then cross out “Criminal Law” on the cover and write “Charge Sheet: Kemo Immanuel Waters (by his mother a Reverend)” and drop it off at your local cop shop.
While there, DO NOT ask about the Kotze case because the cops think that the media and public are giving away their game plan, which is keeping him at large. If it’s your luck, they’ll have you in a holding cell with the not-so-Reverend harping on about those fecking whites.
The ANC, government and state must move quickly to take control of the issue. They are in charge of the democratic, non-racial South Africa and, as such, incitement to murder cannot ever be condoned.
Perhaps the not-so-Reverend can wow them down at Medium B Diepkloof with his stories.
He won’t have access to Twitter but you can bet the inmates will consider him the biggest twit in custody.
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